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A Time To Be Silent And A Time To Speak. A Time To Be Silent And A Time To Speak. Ecclesiastes 3:1-7 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to keep silence, And a time to speak; . Times To Be Silent. Job 2:11-13
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A Time To Be Silent And A Time To Speak • Ecclesiastes 3:1-7 • To everything there is a season, • A time for every purpose under heaven: • A time to keep silence, • And a time to speak;
Times To Be Silent • Job 2:11-13 • Now when Job's three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place — Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come and mourn with him, and to comfort him.
Times To Be Silent • Job 2:11-13 • 12 And when they raised their eyes from afar, and did not recognize him, they lifted their voices and wept; and each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on his head toward heaven. 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Times To Be Silent • Proverbs 18:13 He who answers a matter before he hears it, It is folly and shame to him. • James 1:19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
Times To Be Silent • Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive. • Proverbs 29:11 A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back.
Times To Be Silent • Proverbs 14:17 A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, • Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.
Times To Speak • Proverbs 31:8 • Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.
Times To Speak • 2 Corinthians 4:13 • And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed and therefore I spoke," we also believe and therefore speak,
Times To Speak • 2 Corinthians 5:11 • Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.
Times To Speak • 1 Peter 3:15 • But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
Times To Speak • Ezekiel 33:8-9 • 8 When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you shall surely die!' and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. 9 Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
Times To Speak • Ephesians 4:29 • Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
Times To Speak • Hebrews 3:13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. • 1 Thessalonians 4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.